I want to comment on Pope Francis's stance on birth control. He states that God's plan regarding sexual intercourse requires that the couple stay open for reproduction on every sexual contact. When the Pope says this I have to think that he doesn't believe in evolution.

There was a time when the main reason for human sexual activity was for reproduction. But evolution has taken us beyond that. It is evident now that the main reason for the couple to have sexual contact is for their mutual pleasure and that nature and evolution's purpose is to fortify and help seal the relational contract. Very few sexual contacts these days are for reproduction. We now see the value of quality over quantity. Advances in medicine have made excessive reproduction undesirable, for personal and social reasons.

In taking us beyond the old reason for sex evolution is introducing us into a new era where humans are bonding for different reasons than in the past. Because of this the old natural laws no longer apply. We are moving into a new era. Humans have now taken over planetary evolution and the direction seems to be toward a planetary nervous system provided by us as well as a future which we, by our choices, will determine.

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